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December 8, 2017

As Genesis Makes Clear, Fear of God Is the Best Check on Sexual Impropriety

#ThouToo.

From the nudity of Noah to the rape of Dinah to the attempted seduction of Joseph in this week’s Torah reading, the first book of the Bible is replete with instances of people who try to use power or violence to coerce sex from the unwilling. Daniel Ross Goodman finds an important and timely message in the thread that connects these stories:

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